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Now we've got BF down, how do we go to bottles?
DD is 7 weeks today and doing great (still some rash, but otherwise
ok). We've got 5 weeks til daycare.... She adamantly refuses a bottle. Any tips other than patience and persistence? DH gives it and I leave the room. We've tried a couple of different nipples. Now, she was never good with the bottle but for a few days in hospital she *did* take it, she took it easily just never completed it. Now she won't even let it near her lips. |
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Now we've got BF down, how do we go to bottles?
cjra wrote: DD is 7 weeks today and doing great (still some rash, but otherwise ok). We've got 5 weeks til daycare.... She adamantly refuses a bottle. Any tips other than patience and persistence? DH gives it and I leave the room. We've tried a couple of different nipples. Now, she was never good with the bottle but for a few days in hospital she *did* take it, she took it easily just never completed it. Now she won't even let it near her lips. DD1 really didn't like the bottle. What worked for us (to some extent) was using the playtex nurser bottle with the disposable linings, so we could squeeze the milk out into her mouth to get her started. Distracting her while giving the bottle (this is where those baby einstein videos came in handy). Actually, not holding her worked best - DH or the nanny would prop her up in her carseat, turn on the video and then sneak the bottle to her. Other things to try including varying the temperature (quite a bit warmer than you'd think, or even try it cold), covering her eyes with a burp cloth. Try when she's hungry but not starved. Once you find something that works (if you do), giving a small bottle (1-2 ounces), topped off by nursing, every day 5 times a week will keep her in practice. DD1 never took more than 5-7 ounces while I was gone. She reversed cycle nursed, which meant she nursed all night long, but she didn't starve. Things improved when we started solids and she got those from the nanny. If there is anyway you can nurse her during the day that might really help. Good luck! Mary W. |
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Now we've got BF down, how do we go to bottles?
"cjra" wrote:
DD is 7 weeks today and doing great (still some rash, but otherwise ok). We've got 5 weeks til daycare.... She adamantly refuses a bottle. Any tips other than patience and persistence? DH gives it and I leave the room. We've tried a couple of different nipples. Now, she was never good with the bottle but for a few days in hospital she *did* take it, she took it easily just never completed it. Now she won't even let it near her lips. Alexander didn't like regular bottles, but we finally got him to drink from this one: http://www.onestepahead.com/product/85207/686/117.html It feels a lot more like a breast. Just a suggestion. rj |
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Now we've got BF down, how do we go to bottles?
She adamantly refuses a bottle. Any tips other than patience and
persistence? DH gives it and I leave the room. We've tried a couple of different nipples. Now, she was never good with the bottle but for a few days in hospital she *did* take it, she took it easily just never completed it. Now she won't even let it near her lips. hmm, some babies just don't take to it, the way we ended up teaching Ada was to dribble milk into her mouth from a cup with a spout, thus teaching her that she could get milk from something else other than a breast, then introducing the bottle, and I wasn't just out the room, I was out the house! She then managed fine the one day I was planning away from her, but whenever it was only 4hrs, she chose to wait for me. Anne |
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Now we've got BF down, how do we go to bottles?
cjra wrote:
DD is 7 weeks today and doing great (still some rash, but otherwise ok). We've got 5 weeks til daycare.... She adamantly refuses a bottle. Any tips other than patience and persistence? DH gives it and I leave the room. We've tried a couple of different nipples. Now, she was never good with the bottle but for a few days in hospital she *did* take it, she took it easily just never completed it. Now she won't even let it near her lips. Consider some non-bottle options. Shiny never did well with bottles, "barely tolerated" scarcely covers it for a kid who was getting bottles 6 times per day at one point... it was not until recently that we found options that work for her to drink *any* non-breast liquids. The hard sippy cups (First Years take-n-toss) are one option, the super-soft sippy lids are another (Nubby and Avent). We do better with the take-n-toss, but Shiny has teeth and somehow it's just easier for her to bite the darn things and pick it up with her head than to do actually hold it with hands or suck. More to the point, be creative, think outside the bottle. There's lots of ways of getting things into a baby. |
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